Navy Aims to Fast-Track Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning to Maintain Dominance
Posted on March 11, 2021 by Jason Sherman, Special Correspondent
Like a bolt from the blue, the Navy has a new modernization priority — Project Overmatch, a campaign to accelerate delivery of artificial intelligence, machine learning and tools needed to allow the fleet to disperse forces, mass fires, integrate unmanned ships and, in the view of service leaders, maintain maritime dominance in the future.
The project aims to begin delivering the Naval Operational Architecture (NOA), a lackluster name for a breathtaking effort whose results will determine nothing less than the service’s future ability to establish and sustain sea control by integrating network infrastructure, data and analytic tools to provide decision-advantage in a fight.
“Beyond recapitalizing our undersea nuclear deterrent, there is no higher developmental priority in the U.S. Navy,†Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday wrote in Oct. 1, 2020, memo to Rear Adm. Douglas Small establishing Project Overmatch. “Your goal is to enable a Navy that swarms the sea, delivering synchronized lethal and nonlethal effects from near and far, every axis and every domain.â€
https://seapowermagazine.org/navy-aims-to-fast-track-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-to-maintain-dominance/
